"Every man is his own hell."

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"Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness."

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"Stop comparing yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are uniquely pottered and purposed by our maker!"

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"Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts."

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"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there."

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"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."

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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."

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"The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens."

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